I do find the pattern of promise "all" combined with destructuring the easiest way to handle parallelism. I think it's the only "deterministic" parallel pattern code wise.
I think non determinism in code increases the probability of bugs. On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 23:42 Jacob Bloom, <mr.jacob.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>This [current] structure is also just fundamentally different from > working > >>serially in async/await and it forces you to reason about the problem in > a > >>specific way. This doesn't appear to be a conscious decision to force > good > >>code practices > > > >Actually I'd argue that it is. Doing stuff concurrently is fundamentally > >different from doing it serially, and should be reasoned about every time > you > >use it. > > I agree that parallelism is different and should be handled with care, > but I don't think it follows that the best way to reason about > parallelism is the way that `Promise.all` encourages. Making something > more complicated doesn't necessarily mean you'll do a better job of > reasoning about it. > > If you think the proposed syntax encourages poorly-reasoned-about > code, I'm open to iterating on it to find a syntax that works with the > developer to handle parallelism in a safe way, and also doesn't > require them to write too much boilerplate code. > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 3:16 PM Naveen Chawla <naveen.c...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Yes of course, I was responding to your proposal and the subsequent > email about it being incompatible with existing JavaScript because "await" > on its own accepts non-promises, so wouldn't return an array of results > from an array of promises, hence why I proposed await.all etc. > > > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 18:29, manuelbarzi <manuelba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I have a solution for that: > >>> > >>> const promises = [...] > >>> await.all promises //returns an array of results > >>> await.race promises //returns a single result > >> > >> > >> well, my proposal is exactly that, but doing `await.all` by default > with just `await`. >
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